Retired Brigadier General Mikhail Khodarinok, in a report published by the Russian newspaper "Gazeta", confirmed that the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has devised military plans worthy of research and consideration.
Khodarinok added that the scale of the confrontation between Israel and Hamas is increasing after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip, which would deprive the territory of food, water and electricity supplies.
He said the fighting between Hamas operatives and the IDF was intensifying and threatened the beginning of an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Lessons learned
According to the author, the community of Russian experts calls for the experience of combat operations carried out by Hamas in the Gaza Strip to be included in the practice of Russian forces.
During the first hours of the fighting, Hamas fighters managed to find a breach in Israeli defenses and storm several positions. The success was due to the determination of the time of the attack, at a time when the IDF had not organized any defense.
The Russian military expert mentioned the use by Hamas units of a group of mobile operatives, bicycles and drones, as well as motorized gliders and large units of militants on motorcycles.
This is in addition to the use of paragliding units to storm the kibbutzim and breach the border fence, stressing that the use of these tactics in Ukrainian regions is an impossible task.
Khodarinuk revealed that some have also talked about the importance of equipping the Russian army with vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns in the rear, and attacking enemy strongholds in the Ukrainian region of Pakhmut.